Lord Byron - AAALA007A
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Last update: Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D. (24.09.2020)
<br> Aims:<br> To introduce students to a wide range of influential poetic texts by Byron.<br> To trace Byron’s central thematic preoccupations and his exploration of these across his writing career.<br> To develop students’ appreciation of Byron’s formal inventiveness, and the motives for this, across a range of poetic forms and genres.<br> To introduce students to Byron’s significance in British and European culture in the nineteenth century.<br> To introduce students to some of the controversies and critical debates that have surrounded Byron’s life and work since the publication of his earliest poems.<br> <br> Assessment:<br> Credits will be given on the basis of students’ short presentations, their regular participation in seminar discussion and a final essay (2500 words) whose topic needs to be discussed with the instructor.<br> MA students who wish to sign up for the graded paper (AAALA007B) will submit one long essay of 3500-4000 words to receive their course credits & graded paper credits. An outline with a brief bibliography for the long essay needs to be submitted & discussed with the instructor.<br> Erasmus students will receive their grade for their seminar work and a regular credit essay (2500 words).<br> <br> Syllabus<br> The syllabus for this course will run as follows. Most of the texts can be comfortably read in a week. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan, however, cannot and you should try to read these in advance, especially Don Juan. The recommended printed editions are Jerome McGann (ed.), Byron: The Major Works (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning (eds), Lord Byron: Selected Poems (Penguin, 1996). Some recommended secondary reading and a list of online resources follows the syllabus below:<br> <br> Winter Term 2020 Syllabus:<br> In the event of online teaching only, please follow instructions on Moodle. <br> Week 1 – 7 October - Introductory session<br> <br> Week 2 – 14 October - Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage I and II<br> <br> Week 3 – 21 October - The Corsair and Lara<br> <br> Week 4 – 28 October – national holiday: NO CLASS!<br> <br> Week 5 – 4 November - Manfred and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III<br> <br> Week 6 – 11 November - Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage IV, ‘Ode to Venice’<br> <br> Week 7 – 18 November - Beppo<br> <br> Week 8 – 25 November – Don Juan, Cantos I-VIII (extracts)<br> <br> Week 9 – 2 December - Don Juan, Cantos IX-XVI (extracts)<br> <br> Week 10 – 9 December – The Two Foscari<br> <br> Week 11 - 16 December - The Island<br> <br> <br> Recommended Secondary Reading:<br> available on Moodle<br> Bernard Beatty, Byron's Don Juan and Other Poems (Penguin, 1987)<br> Bernard Beatty and Robert Gleckner (eds), The Plays of Lord Byron: Critical Essays (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997) – selected essays<br> Drummond Bone (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Byron (Cambridge University Press, 2004)<br> Jane Stabler (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) – selected essays<br> <br> Online Resources:<br> <br> CHP http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5131/5131-h/5131-h.htm#link2H_4_0006<br> <br> The Corsair and Lara http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21811/21811-h/21811-h.htm<br> <br> Manfred & Beppo http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20158/20158-h/20158-h.htm<br> <br> Don Juan http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21700/21700-h/21700-h.htm#2H_4_0018<br> <br> The Two Foscari & The Island http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23475/23475-h/23475-h.htm |